wallpaper
(wɔːlpeɪpəʳ )
Word forms: wallpapers , wallpapering , wallpapered
1. variable noun
Wallpaper is thick coloured or patterned paper that is used for covering and decorating the walls of rooms.
...the wallpaper in the bedroom. [+ in]
2. verb
If someone wallpapers a room, they cover the walls with wallpaper.
We were going to wallpaper that room anyway. [VERB noun]
...a wallpapered bedroom. [VERB-ed]
3. uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
If you describe music, television, or art as wallpaper, you are critical of it because there is nothing interesting or difficult to understand about it, so people find it pleasant but do not pay much attention to it. [disapproval]
...bland, wallpaper music.
4. uncountable noun
Wallpaper is the background on a computer or phone screen. [computing]
... pre-installed wallpaper images.
Image of wallpaper
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Collocations:
wallpaper pattern
There are approximately 5,000 wallpaper samples, 23 wallpaper pattern books and 5,000 textile samples.
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A light blue was painted over the smooth surfaces of a fussy wallpaper pattern; a similarly light blue-green covered the rougher surface where wallpaper had been stripped.
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Sufferers can get distracted by wallpaper patterns or bright lights, mistake their reflection for an intruder and see shiny surfaces as wet or icy ones.
The Sun
Three distinct wallpaper patterns have been discovered on the third floor.
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Translations:
Chinese: 壁纸, 贴墙纸于
Japanese: 壁紙, 壁紙を張る
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